Ancestry.com closes parts of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigates a leaky server that exposed thousands of passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet.

Ancestry's RootsWeb.com server, which hosts a free genealogical community site, exposed a file containing emails, login information, and passwords of 300,000 users, Ancestry stated in a blog post over ...

Ancestry.com LLC is the latest company to expose confidential user data to the broader internet. A security researcher discovered a file containing usernames and passwords sitting on a server on ...